The trilateral meeting of the African, Asian and Kopal Political Parties’ Councils was held on Friday morning, 26 October, in the presence of the Secretary-General of the Asian and Kopal Parties Councils and Assistant Secretary-General of African Parties
The 2nd meeting of the Executive Office of the Woman Wing of the Council of African Political Parties was held in Khartoum, Sudan during the period 13 – 15 April 2018 and was kindly hosted by the National Congress Party, Sudan. A training workshop was organized on the margin of the meeting to the leaders of Women Organizations in the African Political Parties.
The inaugural Session was addressed by Mrs. Gamar Habani , Secretary of the woman Secretariat at the National Congress Party, and after welcoming the delegations and guests to the session; she referred to the achievements of the Sudanese woman and her contribution at the Political, legislative and executive levels. She referred to the Training workshop in realizing the strategic objectives of the African Woman. The acting President of the Woman Wing Mrs. Annah Nyokabi said in her statement that the role of the African Woman is deeply rooted in the African Communities which consequently led to her Political Participation and expressed the hope that the African Woman will make more breakthroughs in this respect. H.E. Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie Secretary General of the Council of African Political Parties briefed the session on the establishment of the Council of African Political Parties and its auxiliary bodies and their role in realizing the objectives of the Council. He expressed confidence in the capacity of the African Woman and the need to support her in mobilizing her energy in the renaissance project in Africa and said the Council is keen to play its role in the capacity building of the African Woman.
The Session was concluded by the statement of the Guest of honor H.E. Ibrahim Elsanousi , Assistant to H.E. the President of the Republic. He said that the Woman is the basic partner on equal footing to the man and that she is not only qualified to compete on all Political and executive positions, rather she should be given priority to the man and for this purpose the African woman should struggle to grab her rights to gain the status she deserves in public life.
The meeting discussed the performance report of the Executive Office and decided to intensify the activities in the next phase. The meeting endorsed the organizational structure of the Executive Office and the Plan of action up to the 2nd meeting of the General Assembly of the Wing in August 2019.
The workshop was held in three sessions. The first was chaired by Mrs. Naha Bint Hamdi Ould Meknes , Minister of Commerce _ Republic of Mauritania in the presence of Mrs. Gamar Habbani , Secretary of Women of the National Congress Party in Sudan. The paper was presented by Dr. Lamia Abdel Ghaffar, Chairperson of the foreign relations department in the Woman Secretariat of the NCP, Ms Majuro Geres of the African Women’s association. And Ms. Jacqueline Benjamin of South Sudan commented on the paper. The paper discussed the sustainable political participation of African women.
The second session was chaired by Ms. Jayousi Melloua of Zambia, Deputy Chairperson of the Women’s Wing of the Council of African Political Parties. The session covered the experiences of political participation in Rwanda, Morocco and Ghana. The comment was made by Ms. Mariam Muhamata Demil from Chad.
The third session dealt with two experiences from Sudan, the experience of Sudanese women parliamentarians and the media experience in Sudan.
The leaders of women organizations in African Political Parties discussed with great interest in the three Sessions of the training workshop a conceptual paper on the sustained political participation of the African Woman, the realities of the Political Participation of the woman with study cases of four African Countries and the experience of the Sudanese Parliamentarians, the Sudanese Women in the media sector.
The delegations of the women organizations in the Political Parties paid a visit to the headquarters of the Sudanese Woman Association where they were briefed about the history of the Sudanese woman and her role in the community. The delegations also paid a field visit to Africa international University and were briefed of the role of the university in graduating over the years, qualified cadres from the African sister Countries in all scientific fields.
On behalf of participating delegations from African countries, Mrs. Naha Bint Hamdi Ould Meknes expressed her thanks and gratitude to the President of the Republic, H.E Marshal Omar Al-Bashir, for hosting this important meeting of the Woman Wing of the Council of African Political Parties
The delegations of the Women Organizations in the African Political Parties expressed due thanks and appreciation to the National Congress Party for the hospitality accorded to them and for the support of government and people of Sudan to the Council of African Political Parties.
The General Secretariat of the Council of African Political Parties oversees the third meeting of the General Assembly of the Council, hosted by the General Secretariat, Khartoum, Sudan, from 19-20 August 2017.
The third meeting of the General Assembly of CAPP is of special importance. The first term of office of the Bodies of CAPP elected in the Constitutive Conference in April 2013 has elapsed and the most important agenda items of the third meeting of the General Assembly are:-
Elections of the leadership and Bodies of the Council as follows:
Election of the President of CAPP, the five Vices-President and members of the Standing Committee.
Election of the Executive Committee of CAPP.
Adoption of the Executive Rule of the Coordination Councils of the Regions and election of the coordination Councils.
The Standing Committee of the Council of African Political Parties meeting in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco in its seventh session, on 3-4 September 2016, kindly hosted by the Justice and Development Party, commends the good Organization and the authentic Moroccan generosity. The Committee commends the efforts undertaken by H.E. Davies Chama and H.E. Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie to ensure the success of the meeting. After the deliberations on the items on its agenda and the review of the biannual report of the Bodies of the Council and their implementation and the discussion of the action plan framework for 2017 and the performance reports of the Youth and Women Wings of CAPP and the agenda of the next meeting of the Executive Committee decided the following:-
On the other side and on reviewing the political developments in the African Continent and the challenges facing its Countries to establish their democratic institutions and the obstacles that hinder the realization of the integrated economic development of Africa and on looking into the serious threats targeting the security of the peoples and threatening the stability of the Countries, declares the following:-
Welcoming the decision of the Kingdom of Morocco resume its membership in the African initiations and the removal of all obstacles obstructing is target and commending Morocco for hosting the Cop 22 Conference, the Committee calla on all African Political Parties members of the Council to take necessary measures, within their means to ensure, the success of this international Conference in the African Continent.
The Standing Committee expresses once more its gratitude to the Justice and development party for hosting its seventh session and congratulates its members on the success on this session and commends the efforts undertaken by the Presidency and the General Secretariat to serve the unity and the comprehensive sustained development in Africa.
Done in Rabat on 04 September 2016
Secretary General of the Council of African Political Parties
Biannual Report of the General Secretariat
Upon kind invitation from the National Congress Party, Sudan, Khartoum hosted the 6th meeting of the Standing Committee, the 2nd meeting of Executive Committee and the 2nd meeting of the General Assembly. The Standing Committee held its meeting on 27th of March 2016 and adopted the performance report of 2013, 2014 and 2015 and referred it to the Executive Committee. The Committee discussed the proposed amendments to the Statute of CAPP and recommended to forward them for more discussion by the Executive Committee. The Committee recommended that CAPP joins the Alliance of Climate and Environment and approved the draft of the Co-operation Agreement with UNESCO and the establishment of the Economic Council and Media Forum of CAPP.
The General Assembly discussed in detail the proposed amendments to the Statute item by item and introduced some amendments most important of which is the enlargement of the membership of the Standing Committee and the establishment of Regional Coordination Councils. The General Assembly adopted the plan of action Framework for 2016.
The meetings of the Bodies of the Council were very successful with large representation of the Political Parties and contribution in the discussion and decision taking.
Secondly: Cooperation with Regional and International Organization:
The participation of the Council of African Political Parties with many Political Parties reflected the keenness of CAPP to play its role at continent level.
The Council organized in co-operation with China a training program for 16 young men and women from thirteen English speaking Countries. The program included lectures on the State and the Party in China, Chinese African relations Party structure discipline and experience of the Party in the upward build-up the Party. The program included field visits to rural development areas within the program of poverty alleviation. The program also included training of Youth in Politics in the institutions of the Party and professional training. The next training program in China will be from French Speaking Countries.
Fourthly: Relations with the African Union Participation in the 26th Summit of the A.U:
1/Political Affairs Department and elections:
2/Department of Human Rights:-
To boost cooperation between the Council and the African Union, the General Secretariat is planning a visit to the A.U Commissioner of political Affairs.
3/ the Peace and Security Council:-
Fifthly: Observation of elections in Uganda:
Sixthly: Relations with the Pan African Parliament and Regional and African Parliaments:-
H.E. the Secretary General visited the Pan African parliament and delivered a statement to explain the objectives of the Council and its activities. A meeting was held with the president of the parliament and the president of the Pan African parliament later visited the premises of the Council in Khartoum and agreed with the Secretary General of CAPP to sign a memorandum of understanding in Egypt in October 2016.
2/Parliament of the Great lakes:
The Assistant of the Secretary General participated in the activities of the parliamentary Forum of the region of the Great Lakes, namely the meeting of the Development and natural resources held in Khartoum, Sudan in April 2016. He was elected president of the Forum for one year. In this Framework a workshop on the use of natural resources for economic development was held in Nairobi, Kenya.
3/Meeting with the Kenyan parliament delegation:
H.E. the Secretary General met the Kenyan parliamentary delegation in visit to Khartoum, Sudan. It was agreed to strengthen the objectives of the Council in Parliaments to achieve solidarity to free the will of the continent.
Seventhly: Media and the Website:
The department of media arranged media coverage for activities of the Secretariat which included for the period covered by this report the media coverage of the meetings of the Standing and Executive Committees and the General Assembly held in Khartoum 27 -29th March 2016.
The website of the Council has been developed prior to the meetings of the Bodies of the Council and served to :-
